US authorities are investigating how sensitive documents including some containing details of a visit to New York by former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney ended up being used as ticker tape during Macy’s famous Thanksgiving parade.

US authorities are investigating how sensitive documents including some containing details of a visit to New York by former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney ended up being used as ticker tape during Macy’s famous Thanksgiving parade.

The annual Macy’s parade, which took place in Manhattan on 22 November, should have been a straightforward celebration of a US public holiday in traditional and spectacular New York style.

Locals attending the parade later said that some of the ticker tape at certain points along the route contained a range of confidential police data, including in a bizarre twist, some on Romney’s previous visit to the city.